Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY)

Over 4 Crore beneficiaries have been provided maternity benefits under the Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY) as of July 2025.

About PM Matru Vandana Yojana

Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY) is a maternity benefit programme launched in 2017 as a centrally sponsored scheme.
It forms a key component of the Government of India’s ‘Mission Shakti‘ for women’s empowerment.
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Women and Child Development.
Target Beneficiaries:
1. Pregnant women between 18 years 7 months to 55 years.
2. First child (for PMMVY); Second child only if it is a girl (under PMMVY 2.0)
Monitoring: Monitored at the national, state, district, block/project, and village levels using the newly developed PMMVY Software (PMMVYSoft).
The scheme is aligned to SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-being) and SDG 5 (Gender Equality).

Feature	PMMVY (Since 01.01.2017 till 31.03.2022)	PMMVY 2.0 (Since 01.04.2022)
Objective	₹5,000 cash incentive for first living child to offset wage loss and improve maternal health-seeking behaviours.	In addition to previous objectives, promote girl child welfare by extending incentives to the second child if a girl.
Eligible Children	First Child only	First Child; Second Child if a girl.
Benefit Amount & Installments	₹5,000 paid in three installments: ₹1,000 → on early registration. ₹2,000 → after 1st antenatal checkup. ₹2,000 → after birth & first immunisation	First child: ₹5,000 → 2 installments 1st instalment: ₹3,000 on pregnancy registration & atleast one Ante-Natal Check within 6 months from Last Menstrual Period date. 2nd instalment: ₹2,000 after childbirth is registered & vaccinated till 14 weeks age of 14 weeks Second girl-child: ₹6,000 in a single payout
Inclusion of JSY Benefit	Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) amount counted towards total–bringing average benefit to ₹6,000.	Same integration applies
DBT Mode	Direct Benefit Transfer to bank/post office account.	Continued via PMMVYsoft MIS and DBT (Aadhar Payment Bridge System).

Provide cash incentive to offset wage loss, ensuring rest before and after the first delivery.
Improve health-seeking behaviour of pregnant & lactating women.
Promote positive attitude towards the girl child via an incentive for the second girl child.

‘Mission Shakti’ was launched during the 15^th Finance Commission period, 2021-22 to 2025-26.
It is an integrated women empowerment programme launched as an umbrella scheme for the safety, security and empowerment of women for implementation.

Mission Shakti

It is for the Safety and Security of Women.
It consists of schemes of One Stop Centre (OSC), Women Helpline (WHL), and Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP), with a new component of Nari Adalats—women’s collectives to promote and facilitate alternative dispute resolution and gender justice in society and within families.

It is for the Empowerment of Women.
It consists of the erstwhile schemes of Ujjwala, Swadhar Greh, and Working Women Hostel, which have been included with modifications.
In addition, the existing National Creche Scheme for children of working mothers and PMMVY under the umbrella of ICDS have now been included in Samarthya.
A new component of Gap Funding for Economic Empowerment has also been added to the Samarthya Scheme.